Assistant Professor of Architecture Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning The University of Michigan email: jknoblau@umich.edu twitter: @OMGknoblauch EDUCATION Ph.D. in History, Theory, and Criticism of Architecture, 2012 Princeton University School of Architecture Master of Environmental Design, 2006 Yale University School of Architecture Bachelor of Architecture, 2002 Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning RESEARCH FOCUS Architecture and Government; Design and the Human Sciences HONORS and AWARDS National Science Foundation, Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant in Science, Technology and Society, Fall 2010 Fellowship of Woodrow Wilson Scholars, Competitive Fellowship to promote interdisciplinary research with policy implications, Princeton University, 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 Collection Research Grant, Centre Canadien D'Architecture, Montreal, QC, August 2010 Richard Cramer Fellowship for Support of Dissertation Research, Summer 2008, 2009, 2010 Fellow, Center for Architecture, Urbanism, and Infrastructure (CAUI), Princeton University, 2008 to 2012 TEACHING and PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan, Fall 2012 - Present Adjunct Assistant Professor, Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation, Master of Science in Architecture and Urban Design
(MSAUD) Program, Urban Theory & Design in the Post-Industrial Age, co-teaching with Adjunct Assoc. Prof. Noah Chasin, Summer 2012 Invited Lecturer on "Biopolitics and Urbanism" for Post-Professional M.Arch Introduction to Theory Course at Cornell University with Werner Goerner, November 2011 Invited Lecturer on "Architecture as Social Technology" for Post-Professional M.Arch Introduction to Theory Course at Cornell University, with Lily Chi, October 2009 Assistant in Instruction Positions at Princeton University School of Architecture: Introduction to Architectural Thinking (Undergrad.), with Stan Allen and Jeff Kipnis, Fall 2009 China Studio: The New Urban Temporalities of Suzhou, China (M.Arch), with Mario Gandelsonas, Fall 2008 Thesis Preparation (Undergraduate), with Catherine Ingraham, Spring 2008 Computers and Representation (Undergraduate ), with Sean Daly, Fall 2007 Contemporary Architectural Discourse Colloquium, Yale University School of Architecture, Spring 2006 Summer Introduction to Architecture Studio And Lecture, with Henry Richardson and Vincent Mulcahy, Cornell University, Summer 2005 Designer, Barradas and Partners, Ithaca, NY, 2004-2008 Junior Designer, Hilliard Architects, San Francisco, CA, 2002-2004 Junior Designer, Downing Barradas Architects, Ithaca, NY, 2000 2002 Intern, The Monacelli Press, New York, NY, June 2005 Assistant Editor, Loudpaper Magazine dedicated to increasing the volume of architectural discourse, 2003 PUBLICATIONS "The Permeable Institution: Community Mental Health Centers as Governmental Technology (1963 to 1974)," On the Spatial Epistemology of Politics, or How We Know Politics Through Space: Essays for Design Studies, Edited by Delia Wendel and Fallon Samuels (Forthcoming). "The Work of Diagrams, From Factory to Hospital in Postwar America," Manifest, A Journal of American Architecture and Urbanism, No. 1, (October 2013): 154-163. "Endnotes," In Search of the Public, Notes on the American City, Edited by Mario Gandelsonas, Rafi Segal and Els Verbakel, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, May 2013
In Search of the Public Reviewed in Harold Henderson, Is Public Space an Endangered Species? Planning 80, no. 3 (March 2014): 47 48. Book Review: Agriculture in Urban Planning, Generating Livelihoods and Food Security, edited by Mark Redwood, Planning Perspectives, Volume 27, Issue 3, August 2012 "Five Points: Then, Now, & Soon. A Comparison of Architectural Principles," Pidgin 10, 2011 "Infrastructure's Domain: Architectural Manifestations of Techno-Bureaucratic Systems," coauthored with Sara Stevens, Pidgin 8, 2010 "On Accident," Conference Review in Princeton University School of Architecture Newsletter Rumor, Fall 2009 "Better Living Through Psychobiology? Architecture, Autonomy and Crime in the work of C. Ray Jeffery," Pidgin 3, 2007 About a Void, Almanac of Architecture and Design, 2003 LECTURES AND CONFERENCES "Surveying Sickness: The Federal Government's Demographic Research under the Hill Burton Hospital Construction Act of 1946," Social Science History Association Conference Toronto, Ontario, CA, November 6-9, 2014 Keynote at Architecture After Politics," The Architecture Exchange, Summit in Treignac, France from Monday, June 16th to Friday June 20th, 2014 Move over TVA! There s a New Machine on the Mountain, Pecha Kucha Talk at the Science, Technology and Society Mini-Conference, May 1, 2014 Boundary Objects: A Meditation on Method After The Architecture of Good Intentions Invited, Informal Talk, Architecture Doctoral Colloquium, March 26, 2014 The Movement of the Machine: Rise, Run, and Dispersal of the American Hospital at Midcentury, Invited public lecture, Science, Technology and Society Lecture Series, March 17, 2014 "The Work of Diagrams, From Factory to Hospital in Postwar America", Society of Architectural Historians Annual Meeting, Buffalo, New York, April 2012 "Making Fear Pay: Oscar Newman, Crime Prevention and the New York City Housing Authority (1968-1974)", Panel: Policing, Crime, and Urban Governance, 2012 Urban History Association Conference, New York, New York, October 2012 "Permeable Institutions: The Architecture of Community Mental Health Care in the United
States (1963 to 1974)", Section on Sociology of Mental Health, American Sociological Association (ASA) Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado, August 2012 "Public Knowledge: The Story of Defensible Space as a Product of Public Science (1969-1974)", Producing Publics: Architecture, Agency, and Social Space, Graduate Student Symposium, History of Architecture and Urban Development Program, Department of Architecture, Cornell University, October 2011 "Walk Like a Farmer: The Aesthetic Regimes of Agricultural Urbanism and Urban Agriculture", Watershed; the Domain of Water in 21st Century Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure (CAUI), Maison Suger, Paris, June 2011 "The Power of Parables: Oscar Newman's Theory of Crime Prevention Through Urban Design (1969-1974)" at the Buell Dissertation Colloquium on American Architecture, Columbia University, April 2011 "Tailoring Architecture to Its Audience; Institutional Design at Berkeley (1966-1967)" at "Before and Beyond: Architecture and the User", Organized by Kenny Cupers, Reyner Banham Fellow 2010-2011, School of Architecture and Planning, University at Buffalo, April 2011 "Going Soft: The Architecture of Community Mental Health Centers in the United States (1963 to 1974)", Architecture and the State Conference, Columbia University GSAPP, April 2010 "Going Soft: Architecture and the Human Sciences in the United States (1963 to 1974)" Presented in Panel: Flow and Contemporary Architecture Practice, ACSA Annual Meeting, March 2010 "Split Discourse: The Mediated Message of the National Commission on Urban Problems (1967-1968)" at "The Complex", the American Studies Graduate Student Conference at Princeton University, May 2009 "Mobilization of Modern Design: Architects and Artists Pursue Camouflage During WWII" at the conference "Front to Rear. Architecture and Planning During WWII", scholarly direction by Jean-Louis Cohen, held at New York University's I.F.A., March 2009 "Co-op City, Learning to Read It" at the Master of Environmental Design Symposium on "Spatial Illiteracies" at the Yale University School of Architecture, March 2009 PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Guest Juror for Design Reviews at Princeton University School of Architecture, Cornell University Department of Architecture, Temple University, Rhode Island School of Design, and Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan
Consultant for Resident Sign Out; Paperwork Redesign Workshop, by Invitation of Joyce Lee, MD, at C.S. Mott Children's Hospital, June 2014. Co-Organizer and Moderator for a panel on Aesthetics and Biopolitics at the Chronic Urgency: Present Predicaments in Health Conference at the University of Michigan, September 20, 2013 Co-organizer, "LA Watershed; the Domain of Water in 21st Century Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure", with Mario Gandelsonas, Anthony Acciavatti and Sara Stevens, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure (CAUI), Dana Cuff of CityLab and Thomas Wright of RPA, Held at UCLA, February 2012 Co-organizer, "Watershed Atelier; the Domain of Water in 21st Century Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure", Mario Gandelsonas and Anthony Acciavatti, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure (CAUI), Maison Suger, Paris, June 2011 Co-organizer, "Mobility and Accessibility", Conference on 21st Century Transportation Infrastructure, with Mario Gandelsonas, Tom Wright of the RPA, Sara Stevens and Philip Tidwell, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, Princeton University, April 2010 Co-organizer, "Infrastructure's Domain: Architectural Manifestations of Techno-Bureaucratic Systems", with Sara Stevens, Graduate Student Conference, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, Princeton University, October 2009 Co-organizer, Landscape and Urbanism Lecture Series, Center for Architecture, Urbanism and Infrastructure, with Sara Stevens and Anthony Fontenot, 2006-2008 Member of the Rules Committee, Yale School of Architecture, 2005 2006 TEACHING F 2014 ARCH 316 Design Fundamentals I with Mireille Roddier and Keith Mitnick F 2014 ARCH 726 Theories in Design Health W 2014 ARCH 726 Theories in Design Health W 2014 ARCH 322 UG2 Architectural Design II, Air Craft," with Steven Mankouche W 2013 ARCH 322 UG2 Architectural Design II A Community Middle School with Sean Vance W 2013 ARCH 603, HA 489 / 689 Functionalism and Other Regimes of the Human Sciences, cotaught with Claire Zimmerman F 2012 ARCH 312 UG1 - Architectural Design I Melissa Harris (coordinator) OTHER Member of Ann Arbor Rowing Club, Winter 2014
Member of Carnegie Lake Rowing Association, Princeton, New Jersey, 2007-2012 Volunteer at SFMoMA, San Francisco, California, 2002-2003 Varsity Equestrian Team, Cornell University, 1997-98